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Make It Right: the Agency of Architecture in the Image Make It Right: The Agency of Architecture in the Image Author Rodes, Sanja Published 2014 Journal Title The International Journal of the Image Copyright Statement © The Author(s) 2014. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal’s website or contact the author. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/61445 Link to published version https://ontheimage.com/journal Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Make It Right: The Agency of Architecture in the Image Sanja Rodeš, Griffith University, Australia Abstract: In 2007, the actor Brad Pitt and the architectural firms GRAFT and William McDonough & Partners commenced a project in the Lower Ninth Ward, a suburb of New Orleans. The idea was to build new houses for those residents who had lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina two years before. The Make It Right Foundation commissioned twenty-one architectural firms to design green, flood-resistant family houses. This paper aims to investigate how the reconstruction of the Lower Ninth Ward became an international media event and the type of problems it exposes in the domain of contemporary architecture. An attempt is also made to define and investigate the impact of a celebrity leading figure on both the designing and reconstruction processes, as well as possibly the new agency of image in architecture and architecture itself: architectural images as a recognizable media that are used as a tool for marketing and branding. Using the discourse analysis as a method of research, this paper explores the confluence of international attention and image consciousness, where the architectural image is used as a powerful tool of mass media in an attempt to communicate the altered representation of this New Orleans suburb. Keywords: Image, Reconstruction, Media, Architecture, Iconicity, New Orleans, Make It Right, Brad Pitt On Make It Right n 2007, Brad Pitt started a project in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, to produce new houses for the residents who had lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina two years prior. After I the actor visited the suburb and noted the slow pace of recovery and the lack of a rebuilding process in the area, he started a rebuilding initiative. The foundation is called “Make It Right” (hereafter, MIR), and it is a non-profit organization committed to the provision of sustainable housing for communities in need. Brad Pitt chose New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward to become active for the first time in the post-disaster reconstruction on the scale of the MIR project. The foundation committed to building affordable, green-design houses in order to prove that green housing can be affordably built anywhere.1 The houses are available to the people who lived in the Lower Ninth Ward, as well as to their relatives, along with teachers and the first responders (firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians).2 The Foundation continued to expand its interest areas after its initial action in New Orleans and is currently engaged with projects in Kansas City, Newark, and Fort Peck, demonstrating an undiminished interest in assisting communities in need by providing sustainable housing designed in accordance with the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) platinum certification.3 The rebuilding of Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans is the only post-disaster 1 “History,” Make It Right, Accessed April 9, 2013, http://makeitright.org/about/history/. 2 On November 9, 2012, the list of the future homeowners expanded from previous residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and their relatives to teachers, firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians. The interest of former residents to return was significantly lower after 86 houses had been built, so MIR opened to new potential residents in order to sell the remaining houses they had committed to rebuild, and in order to “benefit the burgeoning community.” (See Doug MacCash, “Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Affordable Houses now Available to Teachers, First Responders,” NOLA, Accessed August 5, 2013, http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/11/brad_pitts_make_it_right_affor.html). 3 The project in Kansas City aimed to build units for 150 residents, out of which 50 were for veterans, seniors, and people with special needs; the project in Newark produced housing for disabled veterans, and the one in Fort Peck, housing for Sioux and Assiniboine tribes. For more information, see “Newark,” Make it Right, Accessed July 9, 2013, http://makeitright.org/where-we-work/newark/, “Kansas City,” Make It Right, Accessed July 9, ,2013, http://makeitright.org/where-we-work/kansas-city/ and “Fort Peck,” Make It Right, Accessed July 9, 2013, http://makeitright.org/where-we-work/montana/. The International Journal of the Image Volume 4, 2014, www.thelearner.com, ISSN 2154-8560 © Common Ground, Sanja Rodeš, All Rights Reserved Permissions: [email protected] THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE IMAGE reconstruction project undertaken by MIR, however all of their projects focus on attracting media attention and catalyzing the investment in their respective communities.4 Six months after Hurricane Katrina, the Lower Ninth Ward was the last area in New Orleans still under a curfew, mostly because of the great devastation and the lack of essential services, as well as the depopulation of the area.5 It was one of the areas that was hit the hardest by the hurricane, and the failure of its levee and the resulting catastrophic destruction was the subject of a major outcry in the international media.6 Distinguishing features of the Lower Ninth Ward were its high crime rate—homicide rates were among the highest in the city—and the level of poverty of its low-income families.7 The Lower Ninth Ward was regarded as “the murder capital of the murder capital”;8 while the homicide rates in New Orleans 2007 were approximately ten times higher than the national average.9 The previously mentioned suburb was the last that developed in the city; it started developing in the 1950s, and it was affordable for the city’s poorest residents.10 By 2000, approximately 90% of its inhabitants were African-American and 33% lived in poverty.11 The lack of a reconstruction initiative by the city in an area of such a strained socio-political structure seemed to be a racial issue. The Bring New Orleans Back Commission established under Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. (the Mayor of New Orleans from 2002 to 2010) suggested a plan for recovery in December 2005. According to the plan, the former residents of the areas that had suffered the most severe damage in the hurricane would not be able to return to their home neighborhoods, nor to begin rebuilding their homes, for four months. In that time, former residents would have to demonstrate that at least half of them would be willing and able to return.12 Residents of neighborhoods unable to do so would have their suburbs reduced in size or turned in to green spaces.13 Having only four months to demonstrate both sufficient funds to rebuild and a will to return was particularly difficult for the Lower Ninth Ward’s low-income families. The less-transparent outcome of this plan would be a depopulation of the parts of New Orleans characterized by poverty. Furthermore, rebuilding to ensure a more favorable image for the area and the city would be achieved by allowing only the wealthiest residents to return. Being predominantly populated with low-income families, the Lower Ninth Ward was expected to be 4 “Kansas City,” Make It Right. 5 “Lower Ninth Ward,” Wikipedia, Accessed July 9, 2013, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Ninth_Ward. 6 The Industrial Canal levee that was built to protect the Lower Ninth Ward failed, causing major damage and wiping out almost the entire area. Brad Pitt, in his personal letter of invitation on the MIR official web site called this event “the largest engineering disaster” the US had ever experienced. (“Letters of Invitation” in “Design Guidelines,” Make It Right, Accessed July 29, 2013, http://makeitright.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Design-Guidelines-Packet-Web.pdf). 7 Juliette Landphair, “ ‘The Forgotten People of New Orleans’: Community, Vulnerability, and the Lower Ninth Ward,” The Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007): 837–45, accessed May 10, 2013, http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/katrina/Landphair.html. 8 Ibid. 9 Alexander Eichler, “Super Bowl 2013: New Orleans Readers Show Off Their City,” Huffington Post, accessed May 13, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/super-bowl-2013-new-orleans_n_2599751.html. and “Murders in New Orleans were slightly fewer in 2012 than in 2011,” NOLA, accessed August 3, 2013, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/12/murders_in_new_orleans_were_sl.html. 10 “Through the Eye of Katrina: The Past as Prologue?” The Journal of American History, 94 (Dec. 2007): 693–876, accessed May 13, 2013, http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/katrina/gloss/_neighborhood.html?key=lower_ninth 11 Landphair, “The Forgotten People of New Orleans.” 12 Kate Randall, “City Residents Denounce ‘Bring New Orleans Back’ Rebuilding Plan. Remaking New Orleans for the Wealthy,” World Socialist Web Site, accessed May 9, 2013, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/01/newo-j14.html. 13 Milla Harrison-Hansley, The Lost city of New Orleans, videorecording, written/produced by Milla Harrison-Hansley (Frenchs Forest, NSW: BBC Active, 2006). The “Bring New Orleans Back” plan was supported by the fact that the hardest-struck areas were below sea level (for example, the Lower Ninth Ward), which, together with the Mississippi River bordering them, represent a high risk of flooding and another disaster. The city experts analyzed the situation and concluded that the best way to partially block strong hurricane winds would be to restore green spaces in the mentioned areas, and not to risk more victims in case of another hurricane.
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